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...Nation builder, visionary, Uber-industrialist, human bulldozer: Hyundai founder CHUNG JU YUNG wore all these hats and more. When the son of a peasant from a North Korean village died last week at the age of 85, South Korea lost one of its 20th-century giants. If Korea's leap from war-battered basket case to industrial powerhouse was miraculous, Chung was chief miracle maker. He started out selling rice as a runaway teenager, set up his own construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold...
Suddenly, Wilson's narrative jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen...
...note he had co-signed for a relative, now unexpectedly due; the news from Britain about the pound, which had risen to around $2; yes, and the Kremer Prize. Why, he mused, had no one been able to claim the [pound]50,000 offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer for the first man-powered flight around a mile-long, figure-eight course? "Then a light bulb went on above my head," says MacCready. "It was a eureka moment." The Kremer Prize, he realized, would about pay off his debt. Sometimes inspiration is just that mundane. Necessity, invention's putative mother...
...plot told telegraphically, chiefly through a series of newspaper clippings. A 1945 story reports on the death of Laura Chase, 25, who somehow drove a car off a Toronto bridge. An item two years later reveals the discovery of the body of Richard E. Griffen, 47, a prominent Canadian industrialist found dead of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage in the cabin of his sailboat. Then comes a fast-forward to 1975 and a note on the death of Aimee Griffen, 38, of a broken neck after a suspected fall. At this point, Atwood's novel is barely 20 pages...
...Somerset roster include former Harvard Business School Dean John H. McArthur, former Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Dean Theodore Eliot ’48, former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox ’34 and an aging roster of heavy-hitting Yankees—including retired industrialist Louis Cabot ’43, former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Winthrop Sears ’52 and former state senator William Saltonstall. They are always looking up and down the Charles for suitable academicians and physicians...